Like the upheavals in the broader Australian film industry, Queensland’s Pacific Film and Television Commission has had a turbulent recent history — but industry insiders are cautiously optimistic.
Articles by Ben Eltham 
VCA uprising engulfs Glyn Davis
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glynn Davis has a problem on his hands as unrest grows at the Victorian College of Arts.
New Dean cops the wrath of VCA students
The new Dean of the Victorian College of the Arts Southbank campus has been specifically brought in to help ram through the controversial “Melbourne model” curriculum changes.
Art and politics boil over for the Melbourne Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival is finding the politics of nationalism just a bit tricky right now. That’s a good thing, writes Ben Eltham.
The Australia Council strike, while Oz arts stand out in Italy
Despite the strike going on at OzCo headquarters, Australia’s visual arts representation at the Venice Biennale is a welcome step in a more progressive direction, writes Ben Eltham.
Sydney Writers’ Festival threatens to arrest the press
What is it with the Sydney Writers’ Festival and writers? The festival that purports to celebrate writers and journalists seems awfully good at censoring and excluding them.
VCA’s Puppetry course on the chopping block
The Victorian College of the Arts faces a deeply uncertain future as Melbourne University makes swinging cuts to courses and jobs there.
Sydney’s Luminous arts festival is un-Australian
It’s hard to see how Luminous will “celebrate the diversity of Sydney’s creative industries” given that almost no-one from Sydney (let alone the rest of Australia) is even playing.
Bligh’s PTFC goes PHHHTT
Is a scandal brewing in Queensland Premier Anna Bligh’s arts portfolio over the Pacific Film and Television Commission, Queensland’s film funding body?
‘Dumb!’ ‘Insulting!’ ‘Hughesian!’ Art criticism goes the biff
It’s always amusing when critics get a taste of their own medicine.
